Don't Be Afraid of Success - A Different Reading on the Story of the Spies

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi YY Jacobson’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

the yeshiva dotnet it was probably the greatest collective failure of leadership in the genesis of Jewish history when Masha Rubino sends twelve leaders 12 spies upon whom about whom the terror testifies that they were prominent leaders Ailish Moyes Hashem mashallah mashallah Souris R is neither the names of the men who Moshe sent to scout the land and the terror describes them as coulomb an awesome they were all men rush ibanez roll aim of the heads of the sons of Israel what does it mean Kulemin awesome they were all men obviously if he sent 12 men they were men so rashly says : awesome Shiva McCarroll awesome Kashi voz when it says they were men it's like you say you're the man or he's the man they were all men of distinction men people of great prominence of great dignity of great significance of great virtue as he says voice aw shucks cherem are you they're considered they're described as the heads the heads of the Jewish people meaning they are blessed with with leadership skills with extraordinary qualities and characteristics this is how they're described and yet and we had notwithstanding the great qualities that these individuals possess somehow their mission ends up in a colossal failure and catastrophe the stakes are high the hopes are elevated everybody is looking forward to enter into the Promised Land they are so host to come back give a report and explain to the people the nature of the land the flavor of the wine thank you the nature of the land the flavor of the land the nature of that position the empires they would have to confront moshe asks them to describe the people who are living there how many people are

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2. 6:21its inhabitants all the people that we have seen there are huge humongous muscular powerful the…
3. 12:34and God says they won't die in the desert it'll be a long time many of…
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6. 31:15obvious heavier we're barking up the wrong tree Egypt is a much better option Loy Newhall…
7. 37:34enemies within and without so the spies were frightened of victory they were afraid that we're…
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9. 50:13even be somebody once told me I'm afraid to be happy I said why cuz then…
10. 56:27because they had to have the strong foundation but the desert was not the goal it…

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